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One excellent example I learned of recently was Catherine of Valois. A queen dowager who, among other things, in a later relationship co-founded the Royal house
by tigerlily 5y ago
One excellent example I learned of recently was Catherine of Valois. A queen dowager who, among other things, in a later relationship co-founded the Royal house of Tudor with a random Welshman.
By the by, the Wars of the Roses make for an explosive tabbed browsing experience.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois
- jfengel 5y agoCatherine's is a remarkable story. She wasn't just any queen dowager: she was the widow of Henry V, a practically mythical figure in British history. That made Owen Tudor the step-father to Henry VI, who unfortunately was rather a mess as king (mostly, I suspect, due to the fact that he became king as a baby and everything was messed up before he was even able to talk). It makes her a rather dubious link in the claim that her grandson made after the York family finally wiped itself out. Henry Richmond had to say a combination of "Grandma was married to the best king ever" and "Besides, I just killed the old king and there's pretty much nobody left, wanna fight about it?" I'm a bit surprised that more people don't see it as a Great Reset of the British monarchy, but given the way the Tudors petered out themselves (via the Stuarts) and they had to mail-order some new monarchs, first from the Netherlands and then from Germany, it's just one more thing. Post-Roses-War is also a pretty obsessive Wiki-spelunk.